A LONG JOURNEY

                                                    A LONG JOURNEY

    

     HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A JOURNEY WHERE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOU OR AROUND YOU SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING FOR A REASON? DOES IT LOOK LIKE IT’S A PUZZLE AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU KNOWS THE ANSWER AND HAS GOT IT ALL FIGURED OUT BUT YOU? ACTUALLY IT’S A QUESTION THAT RELATES TO EVERYONE. YOU, ME, YOUR NEIGHBOUR WHO HAS BEEN NAILING IT SINCE CHILDHOOD. SOMEWHERE, DEEP DOWN, THERE IS ONE THING THAT MAKES US HUMANS ANXIOUS, EXCITED AND MAKES US BEGIN A JOURNEY OF OUR OWN, WITHOUT KNOWING WHERE IT COULD ACTUALLY LEAD US TO. THERE ARE TIMES WHERE WE THINK WHAT WE ARE CHASING COULD ACTUALLY CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF THE WORLD, LIKE IT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU, AND ONLY YOU HAVE THOUGHT OF, BUT THEN YOU DROP THE IDEA AND THE THOUGHT OF DIGGING INTO SOMETHING DEEP LOOKS UNREASONABLE YOU AND THINK, WELL EDISON AND EINSTEIN WERE PURE MIRACLES AND I, LIKE EVERY OTHER BEING, SHOULD JUST DROP THE QUEST AND FOCUS ON MAKING A LIVING. BUT YOU KNOW, THERE IS ALWAYS ONE PART OF US, WHICH NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE TRY, NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE WANT IT TO STOP, IS ALWAYS ALIVE, IT’S CURIOSITY. SOME OF US KEEP THAT CURIOSITY ALIVE AND BUILD NEW THINGS OUT OF IT, TAKE A STEP TOWARDS STARTING SOMETHING, THAT NO MATTER HOW MANY QUESTIONS THEY HAVE IN THEIR MINDS AND NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT SCARES THEM AT FIRST, THEY STILL WANT TO GO FOR IT, BECAUSE YOU KNOW FOLKS, IT’S US WHO HAVE CREATED A CHART OF HOW WE SHOULD LIVE AND WHAT STEPS WE SHOULD FOLLOW TO HAVE THE PERFECT HOUSE OR THE PERFECT CAREER THAT WAS NOT EVEN OUR CHOICE TO START WITH, AND THERE STILL ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE MAKING CONTINUOUS EFFORTS TO PROVE US WRONG AND EVERY TIME THEY FAIL, WE CONVINCE OURSELVES THAT CHOOSING ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR THE CHART WOULD DROWN US. SOMETIMES ITS GOOD TO CHOOSE ‘ROAD LESS TRAVELLED’, NOT BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE YOU A MILLIONAIRE (WELL IT’S GOOD IF IT DOES), BUT BECAUSE EVEN IF IT DOESN’T TURN OUT TO BE A GOOD EXPERIENCE, YOU AT LEAST HAVE A STORY, AN EXPERIENCE THAT YOU CAN CALL YOURS, AND IS NOT WRITTEN IN THE GUIDELINES OF “HOW TO LIVE LIFE”.